Cosmo Tech & Utilco Executive Roundtable - Copenhagen

Steering Asset Management Strategies with AI and Simulation in a Changing World

On 27 April 2026, Denmark's leading energy and infrastructure operators met for a candid, off-the-record conversation on shared planning challenges across gas, electricity, district heating, and urban mobility.

This page gathers the key themes alongside case studies, analyst research, and resources to take the conversation further.

In keeping with the spirit of the session, this page is intended for attendees and their colleagues only.

Uncertainty has become the defining condition 

Investment strategies built on five- to ten-year assumptions are collapsing in three or four. Leaders need to price the cost of different futures - not just pick one and plan against it. As grid topology shifts, what was a critical asset this year may not be in six months. 

CapEx and OpEx are in direct tension - with no clean resolution 

Operators are extending asset lifetimes through overhauls because reinvestment programmes take a decade to deliver. The grid is running without headroom, and the tools to model these trade-offs at system level don't yet exist in most organisations. 

Justifying strategy is getting harder - internally and externally 

Boards and regulators increasingly expect the analytical foundation behind investment decisions - not just expert judgement. Scenario-based justification is becoming the expected standard, and the challenge is building that capability without waiting for perfect data. 

Simulate the cost of uncertainty across the whole system 

Test your strategy against many futures - different transition timelines, demand scenarios, regulatory outcomes. See which decisions hold up across all of them, and how a choice in one part of the network ripples consequences everywhere else.

Start now - don't wait for perfect data that may never arrive

The Asset Maturity Framework helps organisations identify where they are, what data actually matters for the decisions they need to make, and how to start incrementally - rather than waiting for a data infrastructure that may never arrive.

Evidence for regulators, not just for internal teams

When RTE needed to justify a 15% budget increase to the French regulator, simulation provided the analytical foundation. Scenario-based justification is increasingly what regulators in tariff environments expect to see.

Gartner Report

Emerging Tech: Tech Innovators for Intelligent Simulation

This Gartner report highlights how simulation is shifting enterprises from reactive to proactive decision-making across energy and manufacturing. It includes a Cosmo Tech customer example showing how RTE, the French electricity transmission operator, applied simulation-based planning to optimise long-term grid investment  (page 11).